IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6123, 9 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

High barometer. incitement in "Wellington at fever heat. Rabbits ..increasing rapidly on the Pen* insula." Caledonian sports at Amberley to* morrow. The Waiau bridge to be repaired at a cost of .£3OOO. Akaroa Club's race meeting at Little River to-morrow. William 1., the first German Emperor, died March 9, 1888. Railway excursions to-morrow to Amberley and Little River. The Amy Sherwin concerts are attracting delighted audiences. American and German warships wrecked at Samoa, March 9, 1889. . The committee of the Industrial Association will meet to-morrow night. Parade and annual meeting of the Mounted Rifles to-morrow night. [ Edmund Tatteraallj head of the great firm of horse auctioneers, is dead. The linwooi Borough Council will hold a special meeting to-morrow night. The Cotton King will be repeated at the Theatre to-night and to-morrow night. Experimental irrigation is to be carried out at the Lincoln Agricultural College. Christchurch Horticultural Society's flower show to-morrow, in the Art Gallery. The gravity of affairs has affected the London, Paris and New York Stock Exchanges. The United States Government is preparing for any emergency that may arise in connection with Cuban affairs. Metemneh has been burned by the dervishes, and a considerable force ib advancing against the British. The result of the Wellington election, which will probably be received before ten o'clock to night, will be posted outside thia office. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday Dr Russell was committed for trial on a charge of having performed an illegal operation. Bail, aggregating .£IOOO, was allowed. , _ „ The Appeal Board under the Railway Servants Classification Act, closed its sittings at Clmßtchurch yesterday afternoon, having taken evidence in twenty-six cases, upon which the Board s recommendations will be forwarded to the Minister of Railways. The members of the Board left for Dunedin to-day.